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It’s hard to slow down.
This cultures worldview of movement and progress and productivity creates a guilt in us when we stop moving, when we stop producing. When we don’t progress the way we feel like we must or others expect us to brings a sense of shame. This guilt and shame can set in when we don’t accomplish a task, get an exceptional grade on an assignment or get the job we were expecting.
Our families and friends, without even knowing it, place these expectations on us. Sitting and resting become a pass time for a long awaited “retirement” and even when we reach this moment in our lives, the idea of slowing down seems further away that it was before we took to the pension plan.
Regardless of our age or where we are in our living, slowing down is something that God actually expects of us. There is a call to rest and refresh. There are calls to wait, specifically to wait on him. There are calls to slow down and journey at a pace that Jesus takes.
It may seem backward to us, this idea of slowing down. Our reality, especially in the western church, is just like the culture of productivity and progress in our world today. The church seems to think that God wants us, or even worse, needs us to produce too.
We feel the need, the expectation to produce content, materials, deeds of goodness and kindness. Nothing bad, all of this is good. Good in its place.
It’s when we expand the breadth of expectation to surpass the capacity of the individual that the good becomes wrong. The struggle, we all feel it. Where is the line and how far can I go without losing myself in the battle to produce?
It is a mistake that we make constantly, not understanding the word “limit”. We struggle to recognize that the call to slow down, the call to rest and refresh, the call to wait, are all calls to understand the one thing we wish we didn’t have, limits.
Slowing down…walking at a pace that Jesus walks is a greater challenge today in our cultural moment than the productivity trap that most of us are in.
Slow Down.
The Psalmist tells us:
“Be still, and know that I am God.”
The entirety of Psalm 46 evidences the work of God in the lives of his people, in his ever-existing creation. The call to his people is to behold and to be still. To experience his work before us. To see his glory. To revel in his love and grace. Be still that you would know and understand that your life and breath, your eternity and salvation rests in his hands and by his sovereign power.
When we truly wrestle this truth of expectation into our understanding re can recognize that it means not producing like we think we need to. It means not expanding our reach with our good deeds…it means walking with Jesus without concerning ourselves with how we make it happen.
Slowing down and walking with Jesus means we can see what he is doing before us and around us.
When we are running at our pace and we wonder out loud, “where is God when I need him?” we come face to face with the truth that we are running on our own steam and missing the opportunity to live out of his living and being.
Where is God? He is still moving, still working, still engaging in this world and in your life, and you will see it when you slow down to behold and be still.
Jesus calls us to be with him, to find our living out of him (John 15).
Will you walk at his pace, slow down to experience him? Will you be still and behold?
It will change the way you see yourself.
It will change the way you see the world.
It will change the way you understand life.
And it will begin to change the way you experience the very nature of time itself.
Slow down.
The word that keeps coming to my mind over the past few days is “loss”.
For some, these past few weeks have seen a job loss. Others have seen their health take a drastic turn or the security that they once had. Others have lost joy and happiness; their hope has dissipated and they feel empty. While others have lost loved ones. People that made their lives twinkle and gleam with their unique expression of Jesus’ love.
Loss comes in many shapes and sizes and degrees. It comes in waves or is simple and sudden. What is true is that loss comes upon us all. Regardless of where you find yourselves on the spectrum of wealth, health or success, loss will come. Not one person is immune, there is no pill or shot that can halt its coming or its devastating effects in our lives.
What is also true is there is a remedy for loss. It’s perfect companionship.
It looks like abiding in the wonder and awe of the God who created you and I, really reveling in relationship with him.
It’s a remedy, not a cure. See, he doesn’t take the loss away or make the booboo better. But he does carry the pain and hardship for you, he passes on his rest and grace to shape a new life of walking so very close to him.
Slowly, as you begin passing him your loss – the grief, the sorrow, the pain, the agony of it all, he responds in shaping your image of him, the world that you live in and the eternity that lies before you.
He opens your eyes to see the answer to every question comes back to his great love and his desire for us all to experience it. He opens our hearts to experience an eternity now in him that lasts forever – that’s what eternity is…it’s forever. A forever with him, living out what perfect life is in relationship with him.
In the eternal, the temporal losses of today seem microscopic – they still hurt. There is still pain and hardship, and we still ask the question why. But there is perspective now, and that gives us hope.
In that same eternal, the losses that feel like they may be eternal and still seem insurmountable find the creator God who is greater than those losses take their weight from our shoulders and carry them for us. We find rest for our souls. We still hurt, the pain and hardship still there, but now there is remedy. Now there is healing. Now the eternal seems to shape our understanding of our loss in a different way – now we see that even when that loss is someone else’s slumber as the bible calls death, we need not fear.
Even that loss, when we reach for Jesus, is only for a time. Then an eternity is there before us – but this time there is no loss – just awe and glory and wonder filled visions of a God that brings everything into holy perspective. A perspective that we can live in with his direction and guidance.
Rest in his goodness and grace. Even in times of loss – especially in times of loss. Knowing he will bring you through, just pass him the hurt and grief, the sorrow and sadness. He will make you lie down in green pastures – he will restore your soul.
Even as we experience loss, we can know that through Jesus we can, and will be made whole.
I’m praying, wherever you are in this process, you are passing those burdens to him, that he is shaping your vision and perspective to experience an eternal joy that comes only through walking closely with him. For his glory and your good.
The expectations flood in. They flood over us all.
Expectations in our work, relationships, even from the countries – nations we live in.
These expectations are not only present in our ever-day, they grow and become worlds and empires in themselves that develop new expectations that rival the old.
We are inundated with expectations. Most, we can all attest to, are not ever going to materialize. We are just not that good, not that talented, don’t have that inordinate amount of time to master such great expectations.
But we strive. We put effort into these expectations regardless of the outcomes.
What we often don’t think about is the expectations that we are called to focus on in order to shape us in our character and eternal relationship with God.
There is one expectation that challenges us to our very core:
“You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.”
Philippians 2:5
It may be one of the most direct expectations that we find in scripture, most definitely one of the hardest. The expectation to be as Jesus in how and why we think and act.
Attitude is more than just a whim or a feeling. Attitude is a governing force in ourselves.
Eugene Peterson put it this way in his translation of the Philippians verse:
“Think of yourselves the way that Christ Jesus thought of himself.”
Not that we are called to think and feel and act as God. But that we are to emulate the characteristics of Jesus in his humility and grace for, and before others.
It isn’t enough to consider others before ourselves, we are to sacrifice; completely give of ourselves to our emptying place for our brothers and sisters. The expectation of the Christ follower is to give all, share all, express love to all with our own expectation of nothing in return.
Give with no strings attached. Share without glory. Love unconditionally and anonymously.
It is what we see Jesus do through the gospels. It is how he began his time with us, come as a baby, laid in a feeding trough. Our saviours’ expectations were nil. What that baby born in Bethlehem offers is another story.
Jesus, in his teaching tells us what this expectation presented to the Philippian church looks like from his perspective:
“Come to me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Matthew 11:28-30
The expectations of life with Jesus flow out of a call to rest and journey with him. The world calls us to impossible expectations and to meet them head on, by ourselves. This life and journey with Jesus, fulfilling his expectations of his yoke, happen WITH him.
Remember he tells us we won’t be alone. He is with us. He gives his Spirit to us to guide, shape and sharpen us.
From the expectations of a world marred with sin, to the expectations of Christ’s likeness embodied in perfect holiness, the journey of life with Jesus finds its place in his peace and joy.
Latch onto his expectations. The journey of self-sacrifice and giving fully of ourselves to everyone around us as Jesus did and continues to do, is hard, impossible. Yet with Jesus, now all things are made possible – in fact, they are made probable!
I was lost in a snow storm. Driving down a highway in horrendous snow squalls with no idea where I was. The roads, snow covered, lost their directive markers. The wind flying toward my front windshield creates a fear-filled, mesmerizing experiencing that dulls my mind and could easily have put me to sleep.
That snow coming so quickly, blotting out sights of trees and pavement, made me dizzy and terrified and completely disoriented. I couldn’t have told you where I was.
Have you ever found yourself in a snow storm? Have you ever found yourself in a place without borders or boundaries, lost and disoriented?
Sometimes we find ourselves in life situations with poor visibility, the way is covered and we can’t see a way forward, a way at all.
Jesus says in those times to trust him. Not to be afraid, not to lose heart, not to let the world and the lies of the evil one penetrate our hearts. He is with us.
He promised to remain with us, even giving us the Holy Spirit to guide and comfort us, that we would never be alone. Fear often comes when we feel like we are alone, emptiness entangles us when we feel like we are without help.
But Jesus tells us:
“Come to me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28
That rest is found in him. Meaning, we are not alone. The entirety of Psalm 23 echoes this truth, that our journey is with him. He is always with us. He tells us point blank before he is taken up in to heaven:
“And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20b
This nearness and concern is found in the Old Testament too, when God displayed his care for his people by providing his presence and guiding them with a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
He gave them direction, a way to go when they were unable to see past their last steps. He not only brought them out of Egypt, but through the Red Sea and the wilderness, to finally find rest in the land of promise.
Jesus doesn’t leave us hanging. He chases us, comforts us and doesn’t leave us stranded in the desert or in a snow storm.
We may not be able to see the end from the beginning but he can.
In the snow storm I reached out for the only hope I had, Jesus. I called out for him to guide me to my destination, and eventually I found my way through the snow.
I crawled. I prayed. He guided me. But most importantly, he remained.
It often isn’t the plan or destination that really brings us to our knees, it’s that we feel like we are out there by ourselves. The disorientation comes when there is seemingly no foundation, the chaos ensues when we lose our footing, our fear and loneliness come when we forget He has been with us on the journey from the beginning.
He is with you on the journey of grief and pain. He is with you on the journey of repairing relationship, of reaching out to others. Jesus is with you in the thick of it.
He will see you through to the promised land. To the destination he has you fixed on but can’t see or experience yet.
The journey may be long, but he is present with us every step of the way.
He will see you through the journey and in the process demonstrate over and over again how much he loves you.
The paths we walk and journey along are not easy. But it is in sharing those paths with Jesus that joy finds its place and hope is rekindled.
Have hope in the chaos and uncertainty. He walks with you. He will direct your paths and if you trust him, even when you can’t see where you are going, he will bring you home.
“It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”
Deuteronomy 31:8
Ever felt lost?
Have you ever felt confused about where you need to be or where you need to go?
I walk into a store and, forgetting my list at home, feel aimless in figuring out my purpose and what I am supposed to be bringing home. What I end up with is bags of food and produce that don’t match and a call to the nearest pizza place that night.
I open up my cell phone and forget what I was going to look up or who I was going to call. I end up doom-scrolling or playing a game of Sudoku, wasting away minutes, even hours of productive time.
I sit down to talk with someone about something really important and we end up talking about weather or the latest hockey game. Resolution never is reached or impact in life change is never experienced.
For you, these examples may be trivial or they are daily life. It may be that your lostness, the confusion you feel is far deeper.
I will let you in on a little secret that was never meant to be a secret. It’s the answer to the question where do we go from here…are you leaning in?
The answer is: follow. Follow after Jesus and the story he is writing for you.
In Mark 1:16-20 Jesus calls the first 4 of what would become 12 disciples.
And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” And immediately they left their nets and followed him.
They saw the experience of following after Jesus as the opportunity of a lifetime and ran to the story that God was writing for them. There was no question or concern in their response, just an obedience to Jesus.
What they understood that we often miss, even in their naivety, is that the story we live in isn’t our own and we are not its author. It’s God’s story. I know, it’s not what the culture says and its certainly not what mainstream socials would have you believing. But the truth is, its about him not us.
When we are lost, missing the mark and confused, it often means that we have stepped out of the story that is being written and have decided to live in the margin, the openness that feels like freedom. But that openness isn’t freedom, its emptiness and it’s lonely there.
Step back into the story written for you by him. Reach out, grasp the hand that can hold you fast and firmly in the storms of life and listen to the voice that brought the stars into being.
Live in the certainty of a call to a life lived with Jesus. When confusion plagues you, when uncertainty finds its way into your mind and heart, stop. Stop and respond with simple assurance, “I am a child of God, walking in his light and on his path”. Rest and silently wait (Psalm 46:10) for him to help you find your next steps.
This is what it means to be bonded to Jesus. To be in the very presence of him who guides and leads and prepares the way for our salvation. Even as a new born baby he brought all around him in earnest silence and waiting, to look to the heavens and express glory to God. He shared what this feels like, what this experience is like in John 15. He is the vine and we are the branches.
Living in this certainty, bonded to him. This is the place where confusion has no place and the feelings of lostness dissipate.
Where do we go from here? Into the outstretched arms of our Abba. Following after Jesus. All in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Where do we go from here? Follow. He will guide.
I’m praying for you today and every day, that you will find your way to him, with him. That you would follow. Grace and Peace fellow ragamuffins.
What if we were actually kind to one another?
It’s a call to communicate the love and grace of God to others. What if we actually focused our attention on being, and then acting out kindness.
We think we do, but our tone and eyes tell the story of our hearts.
Let’s be really honest with ourselves. We are always, it would seem (and our words and actions tell the story perfectly), after what is best for ourselves. From the way we vote to the way we drive, from how we ask to the manner in which we “make a suggestion”, we are consciously (or for some, unconsciously) driven by our own needs and wants.
Paul illustrates what Jesus is talking about in John 15, in the well-known encouragement to the Galatians (5:22-23) when he lays out what the fruit born out of union with Jesus should look like. One of the natural reflections of the fruit born out of union with Jesus is kindness.
Just to be clear, kindness is not “being nice”. Kindness is a reflection from a deep seated love and patience brought out through ongoing communion with Jesus. “Being nice” is plastering a smile and a gentle tone to one’s voice for a brief period of time. Kindness is a character trait of long obedience to Jesus, whereas niceness is limited to a person’s social adaptability.
What we see in our world today is a great deal of niceness and no shortage of cruelty and aggression, or as my kids would say when they were young, “people being mean”. The barrage of consistent and regular abuses that find their way to each of us on a daily basis seems endless. It finds us on our social media feeds, on our commute to and from work and school, in the hockey rink and even in the grocery store line. It’s no wonder that even in the church we find ourselves at odds with the call that Jesus has for us to BE KIND.
You se we are called to so much more. More than superficial smiles and glances.
We are called to bear fruit. Fruit that comes from walking with Jesus, from being intimately connected and rooted in him. The fruit that we bear is evidenced through our kindness. Not our niceness, but our kindness.
We must be kind. We must be people who stand out in the crowded streets of hecklers and hurters and show and evidence kindness.
Kindness in our everyday. When people are looking for human kindness, it should be Jesus people that they find.
Kindness is not a mask or a face we put on when we are with people but it is an evidence of being with Jesus.
Kindness is the joy-filled glance and smile that lingers, the encouraging handshake that feels warm and gentle (yes, still firm). Kindness is sitting with someone and lingering with soft patience, silent embraces, and responsive waves and repeated words of encouragement.
Kindness is time spent in prayer for others, in thinking of them and reminding them of their image-bearingness and dignity, the grace and love that the Father in heaven has for them. Kindness is expressing the gospel to someone, by sharing, by endeavouring to be deeply needed advocates for those who can’t speak for themselves.
To be kind, really be kind, the checklist is so very simple.
Ready?
Yup, no easy remedy. Just being with Jesus and following after him. This isn’t a 30 second fix, or a 5-day master class. This is lifetime goal setting.
Let’s live in a conscious effort to be kind. Kindness opens the doors to real and lasting relationship. Opportunities to share gospel love and grace.
Bear fruit. Fruit that exemplifies kindness in all its dimensions. See the hearts of those around you change, see your own heart change, as we become more like Jesus Christ.
I really don’t like uncertainty.
It makes me anxious when I don’t know what is going on and where things are headed.
There are times when we seem to go through one episode after another of incredible unexpected moments and events. Slowing our progress down to a snail’s pace.
It’s a struggle. A struggle to move forward and feel momentum. A struggle to pick ourselves up when we feel like these moments keep knocking us down.
That is uncertainty – doubt really, is so hard to deal with. It’s hard to handle. It feels like the world is crashing in on us. For so many, it freezes us where we are. We can’t move forward and we can’t get through to do the things that we are called to.
In the book of Matthew, as Jesus meets his disciples in person for the last time before he ascends into heaven, he gives some last, focused and powerful instructions. It’s what Jesus followers have termed the great commission.
But.
Before Jesus opens his mouth to speak, the disciples begin worshipping him and then the line no one expects…
“When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted.”
Matthew 28:17
But some doubted…
I don’t know how, but they doubted. They struggled to see the big picture. The struggled to see where this good news of salvation was going. The uncertainty of a reality that they couldn’t grasp froze them in their tracks.
What amazes me is that even in their current uncertainty, their doubt, all the disciples found themselves in full accord to bring worship and praise to the risen Lord. That is how incredible Jesus was. It reminds me of the passage in Mark 8 when Jesus tells his disciples:
“I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way…”
Mark 8:2-3a
They were so in-tuned with his message, with the gospel of grace, that they couldn’t pull themselves away even to eat. They revelled in his goodness and his compassion for them. They were so engaged and focused!
The disciples in this moment on that hill, seeing a risen Jesus, could do nothing but worship. Even in their doubt, they could do nothing but revel in his wonderful presence.
More than that, even in their doubt Jesus still calls them to the greatest adventure. They are called to the great commission!
He doesn’t miss a beat. He doesn’t cave to their uncertainties and he doesn’t let them collapse under them either. He is constant and focused on the work still to be done to bring the gospel of grace and love to the world.
I see these two small pieces of larger stories and I can’t help but ask the question, “am I so engrossed in his being and the call that he has for me that I can move past my doubts?”
Can I see past my uncertainties and doubts and come to a place of trust?
That is what it is all about, trust! Can I trust him to help me move past the hardships of this life and see me through to the eternity he promised?
As the disciples worshipped on that hill unfettered, I too can’t be held back from lifting my heart to the one that brought me from death to life; that proved himself over and over again to me, not just in the history of redemption but in my own personal walk with him. He has shown himself to be a promise keeper, to support and hear my cries for help. He has demonstrated over and over again just from his presence in my life, the love and compassion he has for me.
Yes, I can trust him.
In the uncertainty he shows himself true. He will lead us through the doubts to accomplish the call that he has for us. We simply need to trust.
How often do we put all our hopes and dreams in the things that we see?
We want to be successful. We want to find meaning in today. We want to experience love and happiness. We want to have friendships and feel belonging.
None of these things are bad in and of themselves. Yes, we want to feel successful and find meaning in what we do. Yes, we want to find companionship and experience all the feels that come along with being intimately connected with others.
But in our searching for these things, we often fall into the trap of idolizing them. Seeing this temporal, right now –stuff, as so necessary, we would give just about anything for them. It is a dangerous game that we play.
In fact, it isn’t a game at all. It is a painful reminder that we stumble and fall, forgetting our purpose in finding joy in the eternal rather than trying to find it in the temporal.
King Solomon wrote:
“What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?A generation goes, and a generation comes,But the earth remains forever.”
Ecclesiastes 1:3-4
We forget so easily that we are here today and gone tomorrow. That generations come and generations go. Life is fleeting, a mist. We are but grains of sand on the seashore washed away as fast we came. Yet our earthly, temporal life is the not the end of our living. We are eternal beings, designed for so much more than this broken world.
Which is why Jesus warns us:
“For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?”
Luke 9:25
The world in all its trappings is just a temporal fix for what is really an eternal problem. Salvation eternally can’t be fixed, set right, by a duct-tape solution. It requires so much more. It requires an eternal solution. His name is Jesus.
He tells us that when we put our hope in the temporal – in the created and fallen world around us we forfeit, losing ourselves in the process. We walk into the maze of this world in hopes of the salvation we so desperately need only to find ourselves unable to reach the very thing we are reaching for. Its reflection disappears as the world darkens and we find ourselves lost in the temporal, unable to see past ourselves to the eternal.
There is no profit in putting our hope in the now, to see time destroy the world that we thought would be our salvation.
Our success, belonging, love and joy is found in the eternal. No, we can’t often see it. At least not with these physical eyes. It is hard to see time with the exception of its extraordinary movement. The eternal is seen only through the soul. Embraced by heart and engaged with the spirit.
Jesus takes our hands, the one for whose sake we give everything, and he leads us there.
To the place we deeply long for. The place of rest and grace. The place where we don’t lose, we gain. We gain an eternal perspective because we have paid the price of pain and denial and found ourselves with all we could ever want or need. All in the person of Jesus.
For his sake we give everything that we are so that it is not lose, but perfect gain in an eternal life with him. Starting now.
Are you ready to gain? To take that step into an eternal mindset that begins with walking with Jesus?
Join me in this journey of experiencing true peace and joy, not just in the now, but for an eternity with God. The God of creation, the one and only, designer of your being and all you see and feel and experience, and everything you can’t see! He put it all together.
It’s a journey that will encompass your whole life. It will shape you and everything about you. You won’t ever want for a temporal world when an eternal is built for you!
Start now. Gain the eternal.
It’s not about me. It has to be about Jesus.
That isn’t how our world works though. The world that we live in is all about what we want and need. Fulfillment and reaching out and grasping our dreams, making them reality. The world we exist in focuses on the self; on the person I want to become.
We are all about grasping this life and taking everything we can from it ‘cause you only live once!
But that isn’t what Jesus calls us to. He reflects a very different culture of living, a very different kind of dream to grasp hold of.
He tells us:
“For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever
loses his life for my sake will save it.”
Luke 9:24
Jesus demonstrates this. There was never an attempt to save his life. There was never an attempt to draw people into the battle for his life and his fears. He makes this clear when he prays on the Mount:
“Father, if you are willing removed this cup from me.
Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
Luke 22:42
The call to save one’s life but the willingness to see the will of God done. It was the love within the trinity, a relational conviction that one submits to the other. A picture of how we are to lean into the will of God, not our own. To learn, sometimes in the hardest trials and difficulties, that it isn’t what we want, but it’s really about Jesus.
The Apostle Paul articulates this well for us when he writes to the church in Philippi. He tells them:
“Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, but taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to eh point of death, even death on a cross.”
Phil. 2:5-8
It is the sentiment, that we do not look to our own selfish desires, those things that we want and feel that we need but to look to others. It is a reflection of Jesus. It is what we are called to do and to fully live out. To give fully of self for the other, for the stranger, for the saviour that paid the ultimate price for us.
It’s not about me. It’s about Jesus.
Does our life point to the one who created us, molds us and makes us new creations? Does our being and doing demonstrate his love and compassion?
What do our actions say about our commitment to be about his work and sharing the gospel of his great love for each and every one?
These are hard questions. They are hard to answer and are just as hard to ask because it requires us to intentionally look at our own lives and ask ourselves first. I have to ask myself first. To self-evaluate.
Is what I do and who I am about me, or is it about Jesus?
Have I taken seriously the call to give up what I want for the call that God has for me?
That is what it is, it’s not a literal giving up our lives…although at some point it might be (like Stephen in Acts 7). It’s about dying to self. We can’t take up a cross when we are too busy carrying our baggage and self-desires.
Grab hold of what Jesus offers and die to self. Don’t try to save everything that surrounds you, your material possessions and desires of the heart. Release them so that you grab hold of Jesus. He knows what it means to open your eyes to what he has for you.
It is the journey we are on. A journey with Jesus. A journey where we follow and he leads. Don’t force it, walk with him, beside him, follow after him and experience his grace as you give up the life you once lived for the reality of eternal relationship with him. Revel in it. Experience his goodness.
Will you make it all about Jesus?
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